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This is probably why US bandwidth hasn't increased in ten years. Telecoms didn't want it to, obviously, but more importantly, the US government didn't want it
by daniel-cussen 13y ago
This is probably why US bandwidth hasn't increased in ten years. Telecoms didn't want it to, obviously, but more importantly, the US government didn't want it to either, because more bandwidth increases the amount of information they have to store to have a carbon copy of everything.
- maxerickson 13y agoIndividual connections haven't gotten a great deal faster, but more people have higher speed connections and they are using them more. Traffic has increased by some enormous factor in the last 10 years (picking conservatively from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_traffic easily gets a factor of 20 or 30).
- daniel-cussen 13y agoTrue, but it was planned in the nineties to go up by much more than that, and it could have increased faster than storage technology increased in density.